Dual boot, auto mount NTFS partition

[Colin Law]

2009/5/27 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>

> Colin Law wrote:
> > 2009/5/27 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> > > 2009/5/27 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> > >> Colin Law wrote:
> > >> > Certainly, thanks to Rick and NoOp.  There is one minor point
> > >> > remaining, though it is only a detail.  On the Places menu it
> > >> > still appears as 58.5 GB Media, is there any way of changing the
> > >> > text here?
> > >>
> > >> Yes. Give the partition a label:
> > >> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive>
> > >
> > > I installed gparted as suggested in the link, and unmounted the
> > > partition. When I right click the partition I do not see a Label
> > > option, however.  The version of gparted is 0.3.8.
> >
> > Correction - there is a Label option but it is disabled.  I have
> > googled in vain for the reason. I have unmounted the device.  Could
> > it be because it is the boot partition?
>
> Did you install the package ntfsprogs? Without that package you can't
> label a NTFS partition. Or if it is a problem of your gparted version
> (0.4.3 works but I don't know about 0.3.8) you could label the partition
> using Windows.
>
>
Installing ntfsprogs did it. Many thanks.

Colin


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